Love & Other Lies: Book 3 Professional Players Series by Gallagher Lyndsey

Author:Gallagher, Lyndsey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

KERRY

Sweet relief pumps through my bloodstream to my jelly-like legs. How can I seriously be considering travelling the world alone, when the thought of reverse parking reduces me to a trembling wreck, no matter how well I hide it? I’m a fucking joke. A thirty-one-year-old joke. The only thing I wasn’t joking about, was needing a drink.

Whenever I’m stressed, or anxious, it’s my go to. Far from being the fun party animal friend, I’m the unstable friend who drinks to avoid reality. Although, since I’ve been living with Nathan and Millie, I haven’t gotten out of hand once. They’re clearly a good influence. Let’s hope today is not the day I start. Mags is still relentlessly bombarding me with texts, pleading for a night out. The truth is, I’d rather sit in and have a glass of wine with Mr-Fucking-Eligible-Himself than get shit-faced in Temple Bar.

Nathan fetches a parking ticket and we stroll companionably through the little sunny streets. It’s been years since I was here. My parents brought me for a weekend when I was a teenager. They’re a couple of sticklers for routine. I’m not sure how they managed to produce such an unstable daughter, with their combined love of tedious, predictable schedules.

Mam has the dinner on the table at six o’clock sharp. On Fridays she serves fish, Saturday’s it’s beef, Sunday is lamb, Monday is stir-fry, Tuesday is roast chicken, Wednesday is curry, Thursday is pasta, and Friday the whole thing starts again. He then ‘retires to the study’ while she cleans the kitchen. Remembering it, I realise today’s the day they will ring. It’s always the same, every second Friday at five o’clock.

No doubt it will be the same questions over and over. When am I coming to visit? When is Craig getting out? When am I going to get a proper job? And my all-time favourite: When am I going to go back to college and finish my Master’s? As their only child, and a long awaited for one at that, I’m under no illusion how frequently I disappoint them.

Is it any wonder I dread visiting? Craig only came with me once in eight years. I thought it might take the edge off the interrogation, but instead, we both got one. I took comfort in the fact he didn’t have a long-term plan either, until he did, of course.

‘What are you thinking?’ Nathan’s deep masculine voice is like music to my ears. He’s so easy to be around, apart from the fact that he’s ridiculously hot, and now I’m single I have to constantly remind myself not to throw myself at him. He’s my boss. And if he wanted me, he would have made a move by now.

It was safe to flirt that night in Flame because he knew I was unavailable, nothing could or would come out of it. It was a bit of harmless drunken fun. Now I actually am available, he hasn’t come near me, hasn’t made a single move. Mind

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